Computational Modelling: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

by Dell,Gary S.; Dell,Gary S.

• ISBN13: 9781841698557
• ISBN10: 1841698555
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-12
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

The papers in the special issue describe computational models and principles that attempt to explain the performance of brain damaged subjects. The models elucidate the cognitive processes that underlie speaking, reading, spelling, and visuospatial planning by implementing hypothesized mechanisms and then identifying the consequences of specific "lesions" in these mechanisms for the model's behaviour which, in turn, is related to the subjects' behaviour. Although most of the presented models view cognitive mechanisms in connectionist or neural-network terms, they exhibit considerable variety in their underlying cognitive theories, their approach to modelling pathology, and particularly in how they use models to draw conclusions about theory.

Table of Contents

Situating Language Production Within the Matrix of Human Cognition: The State of the Art in Language Production Research

Reference Production: Production-internal and Addressee-oriented Processes

Alignment in Second Language Dialogue

Control Mechanisms in Bilingual Language Production: Neural Evidence From Language Switching Studies

Saying the Right Word at the Right Time: Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Interference in Sentence Production

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